June 2021

Ethiopia’s federal government has accepted a ceasefire according to going by credible reports available to Africa Daily News, New York.

Earlier the interim administration in Tigray had asked the government to agree to call a halt to the fighting.

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The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the former governing party in the region, said on Monday it was back in control of Mekelle, and residents reported seeing troops in Tigray regional uniforms in the city for the first time since November.

The statement on the ‘immediate, unilateral’ ceasefire on Monday carried …

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai has provided a comprehensive briefing to President Muhammadu Buhari on the rightsizing policy of the state State Government and the steps taken so far to implement it categorically pointing out that reversing the decision was almost impossible.

The governor said that Kaduna State will seek accountability for the actions of the Nigeria Labour Congress in the state by setting up a Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the NLC strike and protest of May 2021.

In a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Mr Muyiwa Adekeye, which was sighted by Africa Daily …

Indonesia set a new record for daily coronavirus cases yesterday with more than 21,000, as hospitals are flooded with patients in Jakarta and other Covid-19 hotspots across Southeast Asia’s hardest-hit nation.

The figure brings the country’s tally for the pandemic to more than 2.1 million coronavirus cases with 57,138 deaths.

But the real number is believed to be much higher due to low testing rates for the deadly respiratory illness.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that Indonesia’s Covid-19 case rates have soared in recent weeks after millions travelled at the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in …

The mayor of the eastern DR Congo city of Beni has declared a curfew following three-weekend bomb attacks.

An artisanal bomb exploded early Sunday in a Catholic church in the city, injuring two women, followed hours later by a suicide bombing outside a bar.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that another bomb exploded next to a petrol station on the outskirts of Beni without causing any damage onon Saturday.

Beni is within the North Kivu province, which President Felix Tshisekedi positioned, together with neighbouring Ituri province, beneath a “state of siege” on Might 6 in a bid to clamp …